Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1920 — Page 3

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IT'S FALSE LOGIC | Contention that Ihe Horse I and Mule are Back Num- I hers is Not True THE OATS ACERAGE I Is Increasing Instead of I Decreasing says Government Report Ib re is nn interesting bit of farm- I illg logic Unit looks Hound, but. the I <oiiclusion roneliod is absolutely I false: I “Oul“." Ihe argument runs, “are I raised principally as feed for horses I apd mules. I "The enormous increase in the num- I Ixt of automobiles and trucks in the I country is making the horse and mule I a back number. . "Therefore, with fewer horses, there I is need for less oats, so why not plant I less acreage to oats or stop planting this crop altogether?" The fallacy is twofold. The number of horses and mules on farms, if dedecreasing, is doing so at a rate so slow as to have little or no effect on the oat crop. Furthermore, statistics how that American farmers are not cutting down the total oat acreage but are actually increasing it. Oats Proportion Grows This is not all. The proportion of <: is to corn and wheat has increased, steadily in the past generation. Halt' a century ago there was an average of less Ilian five acres sown to wheat. la each succeeding decade of the last 50 year, the average has been increasing. During the past ten years it increased almost X acres of oats out of every 100 acres of improved farm land. In contrast to this increase in the last 50 years, the number of acres devoted to wheat in each 100 acres of improved farm land has nol varied mm li from 11, and corn has not varied greatly from 20 acres. Let no farmer think that, oats is becoming an undesirable or unpopular crop. Experts in the United States department of agriculture who have made a special study of the oat crop, advocate extensive sowings, though, of course, it does not follow that this grain will pay in all sections, ary more than dairying is profitable everywhere. Nevertheless, a great number of American farmers, particularly in Ihe corn belt, are justified in making extensive sowings of oats each year. It must be borne in mind that the man who is successful in growing oats, grows this crop as one in a rotation ■erics,. It is not his principal farm product, but is one of several important enterprises. Ts is occasionally pointed oal that Ihe oat crop actually gives less returns than corn, for instance, and no ihe wisdom of growing oats when iign can be grown is questi infd. The answer is that a liberal acreage of oats <;m Ire provided without materially reducing the corn acreage, as oats do not compete seriously with the labor necessary to raising corn. The oat crop is sown early in the spring before ;it is desirable to prepare the fields for corn, and when once sown does net 'call for further labor until harvest. On the other hand, the ntnnlnr of acres of corn depends largely on how much land can be plowed rind cultivated by the farmer. Most Important of Small Grains Farmers in sections where corn ma- ( hires too late to make the sowing of wheat after corn cutting a safe venlure, have learned that oats is rhe most important of tire small crops. This applies particularly to Town ami adjoining territory, namely, northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, eastern Nebraska, southeastern Smith Dakota, ami southern Minnesota. Frequently rotation as practiced in the corn halt , covers a five-year period with two J crops of corn, one of a small grain, and two of timothy and elover. Where this practive prevails it is logical that oats be used as the transition crop from corn to the grasses. | If oats is to be made the important crop which experts contend if should lie, file question naturally arises as to how the best returns can bo secured. I Ordinarily the most profitable,wav (s I t () sow oats on disked corn land. If ( Hie lam! was well plowed Ifist year ami is fairly free from weeds it is tinneeo. 'aiy to plow it again for oats. I If corn stalks are still standing in the I Held selected, they should be broken I down ami then cut into short lengths I with a ilis<' harrow so that they will I not interfere with the drill or with I harvesting machnery. 5 Sowing should be done as soon as I the land can be gotten into proper I condition in the spring. Delay may I seriously reduce the harvest returns. I The practice of seeding broadcast is I much less satisfactory than sowing I with a drill, since by the former meth- I of uneved distribution results and I ( many kernels are buried 100 I I (Continued on Page Five)

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